It is the rare takeoff that actually takes off - and then flies in its own smart direction.Ĭomedy, karaoke and that disco finale are only part of the menu, though Morgan Green’s filmed production for the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, available on demand through May 23, leads with the laughs. Built on the gnawed bones of its predecessor, and reset in the modern-day South among members of a Black family that runs a barbecue restaurant, “Fat Ham” refuses the tropes of Black suffering even as it engages the seriousness of the Shakespeare. Perhaps the real tragedy of “Hamlet” is that it doesn’t end with a dance party too many of its characters lie dead at the final curtain for anyone to shake a leg.īut if “Hamlet” wallows, “ Fat Ham,” the hilarious yet profound new “Hamlet”-inspired play by James Ijames, prefers to mellow.
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